April 18, 2018 Men naturally despise those who court
them, but respect those who do not give way to them. (Thucydides, 460 - 95 B.C.)

April 11, 2018 No cause is left but the most ancient of
all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the
very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. (Hannah Arendt,
1906 - 1975)

April 4, 2018 Nature has never read the Declaration
of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. (Will Durant, 1885 - 1981)

March 28, 2018 The theory seems to be that as long
as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he
succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. ( H. L. Mencken, 1880 - 1956)

March 21, 2018 Men may change their climate, but
they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail
himself into common sense. (Joseph Addison, 1672 - 1719)

March 14, 2018 He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
(Thomas Paine, 1737 - 1809)

March 7, 2018 People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do. (Isaac Asimov, 1920 - 1992)

February 28, 2018 Of course, there is no
reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the
traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind. (E. O. Wilson, 1929
- )

February 21, 2018 Whenever the speech is corrupted,
so is the mind. (Seneca, 5 B.C.- 65 A.D.)

February 7, 2018 It is not true that people are
naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour
without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. (Samuel Johnson,
1709 - 1784)

January 31, 2018 At the deepest level, all living
things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the
same genes. (Richard Dawkins, 1941 - )

January 24, 2018 When being the most oppressed victim
gives you the highest status, then it’s a race to the bottom. (Jordan Peterson,
(1962 - )

January 17, 2018 The trouble with having an open mind, of
course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in
it. (Terry Pratchett, 1948 - 2015)

January 10, 2018 Several excuses are always less
convincing than one. (Aldous Huxley, 1894, 1963)

January 3, 2018 Every act of conscious learning requires
the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young
children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
(Thomas Szasz, 1920 - 2012)

November 22, 2017 The problem of social organization is
how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm;
capitalism is that kind of a system. (Milton Friedman, 1912 - 2006)

November 15, 2017 The difference is too nice -- Where ends
the virtue or begins the vice. (Alexander Pope, 1688 - 1744)

November 8, 2017 The house of delusions is cheap to build
but drafty to live in. (A. E. Houseman, 1859 -1936)

November 1, 2017 I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying. (Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900)

October 25, 2017 The whole aim of practical politics is to
keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956)

October 18, 2017 The truth is not for all men, but only
for those who seek it. (Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982)

October 11, 2017 Princes and governments are far more
dangerous than other elements within society. (Niccolo Machiavelli 1467 - 1527)

October 4, 2017 Optimism is the opium of the
people. (Milan Kundera, 1929 – )

September 27, 2017 It is a truism that almost any
sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the
political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein (1907 – 1988)

September 20, 2017 Punishment is now
unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the
democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a
meaningful individual responsibility. (Thomas Szasz, 1920 - 2012)

September 13, 2017 Science has proof without any
certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. (Ashley Montagu, 1905
- 1999)

August 30, 2017 The problem is we don't know what the
climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist
books -- mine included -- because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.
(James Lovelock, 1919 - )

August 23, 2017 By all means let's be open-minded, but not
so open-minded that our brains drop out. (Richard Dawkins, 1941 - )

August 9, 2017 I do not know how to teach philosophy
without becoming a disturber of established religion. (Baruch Spinoza 1632 -
1677)

August 2, 2017 Love is always being given where it
is not required. (E. M. Forster, 1879 - 1970)

July 26, 2017 There is no explanation for evil. It
must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore
it is childish, to bewail it senseless. (W. Somerset Maugham, 1874 - 1965)

July 19, 2017 I always wanted to be somebody, but now I
realize I should have been more specific. (Lily Tomlin, 1939 - )

July 12, 2017 The great end of life is not
knowledge, but action. (Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626)

July 5, 2017 Peddling false history from within the mantle
of victimhood is perilously arrogant for those who claim special treatment based
on history. (John Robson, National Post, July 1, 2017 on aboriginal
demands.)

June 28, 2017 The facts of life are conservative.
(Margaret Thatcher, 1925 - 2013)

June 21, 2017 Truth is the daughter of time, not of
authority. (Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626)

June 14, 2017 We would all like a reputation for
generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. (Mignon McLaughlin, 1913 - 1983)

June 7, 2017 Conscience is the inner voice that warns us
that someone might be looking. (H.L. Mencken, 1880 - 1956)

May 31, 2017 People need a sacred narrative. They must
have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however
intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. (E. O.
Wilson, 1929 - )

May 24, 2017 The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be
put on practically anything -- and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'
(Thomas Sowell, 1930 - )

May 17, 2017 The only way that has ever been discovered to
have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market.
And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. (Milton
Friedman, 1912 -2006)

May 10, 2017 It is one of the delights of the
committedly progressive mind that it can never contemplate the notion of its own
fallibility. (Rex Murphy, 1947 --. National Post May 5, 2017)

May 3, 2017 People who enjoy meetings should not be
in charge of anything. (Thomas Sowell, 1930 - )

April 26, 2017 As comedians, we are all laughing because
life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes
about absolutely everything. (Joan Rivers, 1933 - 2014)

April 19, 2017 Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be
feared more than those openly declared. (Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 - 43 B.C.)

April 12, 2017 Be wary of the man who urges an action in
which he himself incurs no risk. (Lucius Annaeus
Seneca, 4 B.C. - 65 A.D.)

April 5, 2017 Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the
giver. (Edmund Burke, 1729 - 1797)

March 29, 2017 Whatever the evolutionary basis of
religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive. (Lawrence
Krauss 1954 - )

March 22, 2017 Science is the great antidote to the poison
of enthusiasm and superstition. (Adam Smith, 1723 - 1790)

March 15, 2017 The only relevant test of the validity of a
hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. (Milton Friedman, 1912 -
2006)

March 8, 2017 At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a
body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept
without question. (George Orwell, 1903 - 1950)

February 22, 2017 In times of universal deceit, telling
the truth is a revolutionary act. (Often attributed to George Orwell, but
not verified.)

February 15, 2017 One of the great mistakes is to judge
policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. (Milton
Friedman, 1912 - 2006)

February 8, 2017 All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is
for people of good conscience to remain silent. (Edmund Burke, 1729 -
1797)

February 1, 2017 The idea that truth always triumphs over
persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes.
History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put
down forever, it may be set back for centuries. (John Stuart Mill, 1806 -
1873)

November 23, 2016 If the battle for civilization
comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
(Thomas Sowell, 1930 - )

November 16, 2016 To hold a pen is to be at war.
(Voltaire, 1694 - 1778)

November 9, 2016 Sometime a concept is baffling not
because it is profound but because it is wrong. (E. O. Wilson, 1929 - )

November 2, 2016 The improver of natural knowledge
absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the
highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. (Thomas Huxley, 1825 -
1895)

October 26, 2016 The real destroyer of the liberties
of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.
(Plutarch, 46 - 120)

October 19, 2016 Every major religion today is a winner in
the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by
tolerating its rivals. (E. O. Wilson, 1929 - )

October 12, 2016 I'm in favor of legalizing drugs.
According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have
every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are
illegal. (Milton Friedman, 1912 - 2006)

October 5, 2016 In words are seen the state of mind
and character and disposition of the speaker. (Plutarch, 46 - 120)

September 28, 2016 If you don't stand for something,
you'll fall for anything. (Modern Proverb)

September 21, 2016 To learn who rules over you,
simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. (Voltaire,
1694 - 1778)

September 7, 2016 The welfare state is not really about
the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. (Thomas
Sowell, 1930 - )

August 31, 2016 The universe may have a purpose, but
nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
(Bertrand Russell, 1872 - 1970)

August 24, 2016 One of the common failings among honorable
people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people
can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. (Thomas Sowell, 1930 - )

August 17, 2016 The genius, wit and the spirit of a nation
are discovered by their proverbs. (Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626)

August 10, 2016 A moral monopoly is the antithesis
of a marketplace of ideas. (Thomas Sowell, 1930 - )

August 3, 2016 Blind faith, no matter how
passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science, for its part, will test
relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. (E. O. Wilson, 1929
- )

July 27, 2016 Socialism in general has a record of
failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. (Thomas
Sowell, 1930 - )

June 29, 2016 The greatest advances of civilization,
whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or
agriculture, have never come from centralized government. (Milton Friedman,
1912 - 2006)

June 22, 2016 What 'multiculturalism' boils
down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture
-- and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. (Thomas
Sowell, 1930 - )

June 15, 2016 The worst form of inequality is to try
to make unequal things equal. (Aristotle, 384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)

June 8, 2016 Don't talk about yourself; it will be done
when you leave. (Wilson Mizner, 1876 -1933)

June 1, 2016 Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection,
tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness
but their essential strength. (E. O. Wilson, 1929 - )

May 25, 2016 The American Republic will endure until the
day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
(Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805 - 1859)

May 18, 2016 For every complex problem, there is an answer
that is clear, simple, and wrong. (H.L. Mencken, 1880 - 1956)

May 11, 2016 If there is no struggle, there is no
progress. (Frederick Douglass, 1817 - 1895)

May 4, 2016 A society that puts equality before
freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a
high degree of both. (Milton Friedman, 1912 - 2006)

April 27, 2016 The further a society drifts from
truth the more it will hate those who speak it. (George Orwell, 1903 -
1950)

January 20, 2016 I didn't attend the funeral, but I
sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. (Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910)

January 13, 2016 Idealism is fine, but as it approaches
reality, the costs become prohibitive.
(William F. Buckley, Jr. 1925 - 2008)

January 6, 2016 A woman telling her true age is like
a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. (Mignon
McLaughlin, 1913 - 1983)

December 30, 2015 In the end, more than the freedom,
they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all --
security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to
give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished
for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was
never free again. (Edward Gibbon, 1737 - 1794)

December 23, 2015 The more I see of men the more I like
dogs. (Madame de Stael, 1766 - 1817)

December 16, 2015 It is better to debate a question
without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. (Joseph
Joubert, 1754 -1824)

December 9, 2015 How easy it is to make people
believe a lie and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain,
1835 - 1910)

December 2, 2015 Nine-tenths of the people were created so
you would want to be with the other tenth. (Horace Walpole, 1717 - 1797)

November 25, 2015 Though familiarity may not breed
contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. (William Hazlitt, 1778 - 1830)

November 18, 2015 If you know the enemy and know
yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know
yourself, but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a
defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every
battle. (Sun Tzu, 544 B.C. - 496 B.C.)

November 4, 2015 Too much of what is called
'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. (Thomas
Sowell, 1930 - )

October 28, 2015 If you put the federal government
in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
(Milton Friedman, 1912 - 2006)

October 21, 2015 Much of the social history of the Western
world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked
with what sounded good. (Thomas Sowell, 1930 - )

October 14, 2015 But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
(Andrew Marvell, 1621 - 1678)

October 7, 2015 Lying increases the creative
faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.(Claire Boothe Luce, 1903 - 1987)

September 30, 2015 An investment in knowledge pays the
best interest. (Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790)

September 23, 2015 The reason why worry kills more people
than work is that more people worry than work. (Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963)

September 16, 2015 Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a
poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure
to be unwise in statesmanship. (James Russell Lowell, 1819 - 1891)

September 9, 2015 Half the world is composed of
people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing
to say and keep on saying it. (Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963)

September 2, 2015 No man is the wiser for his
learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit
and wisdom are born with a man.(John Selden, 1584 - 1654)

August 26, 2015 The nervous system and the automatic
machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices which make decisions on
the basis of decisions they made in the past. (Norbert Weiner, 1894 -
1964)

August 19, 2015 The inherent vice of capitalism is the
unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal
sharing of miseries.(Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965)
August 12, 2015 Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of
ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of
misery. (Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965)

July 29, 2015 A fellow who is always declaring he's no
fool usually has his suspicions.
(Wilson Mizner, 1876 - 1933)

July 22, 2015 Religion is regarded by the common
people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. (Usually
attributed to Lucius
Annaeus Seneca, 5 B.C. - 65 A.D. It has been claimed that this is a
misattribution, and that the quotation is based on a similar statement by Edward
Gibbon, 1737 - 1794)

July 15, 2015 There is something about a closet that
makes a skeleton terribly restless. (Wilson Mizner, 1876 - 1933)

July 8, 2015 Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot
be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a
feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. (David Mamet, 1947 -
)

July 1, 2015 No great thing is created suddenly.
(Epictetus, 55 - 135)

June 24, 2015 A man wrapped up in himself makes a very
small bundle. (Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790)

June 17, 2015 Never put off till tomorrow what may
be done day after tomorrow just as well. (Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910) We
prefer another version: Never put off till tomorrow what can be put off till the
day after.

June 10, 2015 To surrender to ignorance and call it
God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. (Isaac
Asimov, 1920 - 1992)

June 3, 2015 If evil be spoken of you, and it be
true, correct yourself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. (Epictetus, 55 - 135)

May 27, 2015 For me, it is far better to grasp the
Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and
reassuring. (Carl Sagan, 1934 - 1996)

May 20, 2015 Every revolution evaporates and leaves
behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. (Franz Kafka, 1883 - 1924)

May 13, 2015 You shall know the truth, and the truth shall
make you mad. (Aldous Huxley, 1894 - 1963)

May 6, 2015 A friend to all is a friend to none.
(Aristotle, 384 - 322 B.C.)

April 22, 2015 Science rests on reason and
experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always
sensitive. (James Anthony Froude, 1818 - 1894)

April 15, 2015 The game of science is, in principle,
without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for
any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires
from the game. (Karl Popper, 1902 - 1994)

April 8, 2015 Insults are the arguments employed by
those who are in the wrong. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 - 1778)

March 31, 2015 Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on
the contrary is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. (Albert
Camus, 1913 - 1960) (Cf. Francis Bacon, February 23, 2011)

March 24, 2015 My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is
true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their
own image to be the servants of their human interests.(George Santayana, 1863 - 1952)

March 17, 2015 In individuals, insanity is rare; but
in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. (Friedrich Nietzsche,
1844 - 1900)

March 4, 2015 Men are swayed more by fear than by
reverence.
(Aristotle, 384 - 322 B.C.)

February 25, 2015 You can't get rid of poverty by
giving people money. (P.J. O'Rourke, 1947 - )

February 18, 2015 But one also finds in the human
heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the
strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in
servitude to inequality in freedom. (Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805 - 1859)

February 11, 2015 Life is hard. After all, it kills
you. (Katharine Hepburn, 1907 - 2003)

February 4, 2015 The hardest thing to explain is the
glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
(Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982)

January 28, 2015 America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we
falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
(Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865)

January 21, 2015 No memory of having
starred Atones for later disregard
Or keeps the end from being hard. (Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963. From
Provide, Provide.)

January 14, 2015 Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
(Frederick Nietzsche, 1844 -1900)

December 10, 2014 Youth is easily deceived because
it is quick to hope. (Aristotle, 384 - 322 B.C.)

December 3, 2014 ...nothing that you will earn in the
course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after
life -- save only this -- that if you work hard and intelligently, you should be
able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if
not the sole purpose of education. (John Alexander Smith, 1863 - 1939)

November 26, 2014 Men create gods after their own image,
not only with respect to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.
(Aristotle, 384 - 322 B.C.)

November 19, 2014 It is not materialism that is the chief
curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by
taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. (H.L. Mencken, 1880 -
1956)

November 12, 2014 Among the calamities of war
may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods
which interest dictates and credulity encourages. (Samuel Johnson, 1709- 1784.
The Idler, 1758)
Also: The first casualty when war comes is truth. (Hiram Johnson, 1866 - 1945)

November 5, 2014 Life is a long lesson in humility.
(James M. Barrie, 1860 - 1937)

October 29, 2014 They are always saying God loves
us. If that's love, I'd rather have a bit of kindness. (Graham Greene,
1904 - 1991)

October 22, 2014 Perfection has one grave defect: it
is apt to be dull. (Somerset Maugham, 1874 - 1965)

August 20, 2014 Our life is made by the death of
others.(Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519)

August 13, 2014 On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White
House will be adorned by a downright moron.( [The prophetic] H.L. Mencken, 1880 - 1956)

August 6, 2014 Tolerance is the virtue of the man without
convictions. (G. K. Chesterton, 1874 - 1936) (cf. October 17, 2013)

July 30, 2014 Against the assault of laughter, nothing can
stand. (Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910)

July 23, 2014 When we remember we are all mad, the
mysteries disappear, and life stands explained. (Mark Twain,
1835 - 1910)

July 16, 2014 To live is to suffer, to survive is to
find some meaning in the suffering. (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 - 1900)

July 9, 2014 From such crooked wood as that which
man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. (Immanuel
Kant, 1724 - 1804)

July 2, 2014 Facts do not cease to exist because they are
ignored. (Aldous Huxley, 1894 - 1963)

June 25, 2014 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take
his own side in a quarrel. (Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963)

June 18, 2014 Progress might have been alright once, but
it has gone on too long. (Ogden Nash, 1902 - 1971)

June 11, 2014 Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. (Horace, 65 - 8
B.C.)

June 4, 2014 Everyone who wants to do good to the human
race always ends in universal bullying. (Aldous Huxley, 1894 - 1963)
(Cf. October 10, 2013)

May 28, 2014 So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it
admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. (E. M. Forster,
1879 - 1970)

March 12, 2014 The spirit of envy can destroy; it can
never build. (Margaret Thatcher, 1925 - 2013)

March 5, 2014 The great tragedy of science -- the slaying
of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. (Thomas Huxley, 1825 - 1895)

February 26, 2014 No science is immune to the infection of
politics and the corruption of power. (Jacob Bronowski, 1908 - 1974)

February 19, 2014 The ultimate result of shielding men
from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. (Herbert
Spencer, 1820 - 1903)

February 12, 2014 When the people fear the government,
there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
(Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826)

February 5, 2014 I am against religion because it teaches
us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. (Richard Dawkins,
1941 - )

January 29, 2014 The problem with socialism is that
you eventually run out of other peoples' money. (Margaret Thatcher, 1925 - 2013)

January 22, 2014 Of all the offspring of Time, Error is
the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when
discovered, comes upon us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.
(Charles Mackay,
1812 -1889)

January 8, 2014 Every failure is a step to success.
(William Whewell, 1794 - 1866)

January 1, 2014 All good art is an indiscretion.
(Tennessee Williams, 1911 -1983)

December 25, 2013 Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying
the truth. (Lillian Hellman, 1905 - 1984)

December 18, 2013 Only a mediocre person is always at his
best. (Somerset Maugham, 1874 - 1965)

December 11, 2013 The moment you introduce a despotism in
the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites -- and you get in such a
position that you never know what your neighbor thinks. (Robert G. Ingersoll,
1833 - 1899)

December 4, 2013 There can be but little liberty on earth
while men worship a tyrant in heaven. (Robert G. Ingersoll, 1833 - 1899)

November 27, 2013 ...governments, including free and
democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They
abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social
engineering.
(George Jonas, 1935 - 2015)

November 20, 2013 Potentially, a government is the
most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of
physical force against legally disarmed victims.
(Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982)

November 13, 2013 The desire for safety stands
against every great and noble enterprise. (Tacitus, 56 - 117)

November 6, 2013 The free lunch is the essence of modern
liberalism. (Charles Krauthammer, 1950 - )

October 31, 2013 Insanity: doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955)

October 24, 2013 Outside of a dog, a book is man's best
friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. (Groucho Marx, 1890 -
1977)

October 10, 2013 The urge to save humanity is almost
always a false front for the urge to rule. (H.L. Mencken, 1880 - 1956)

October 3, 2013 The four most beautiful words in our
common language: I told you so. (Gore Vidal, 1925 - 2012)

September 25, 2013 So it may be with me...
I shall complete this mortal year, and gain
Some golden still September of the soul
Whose harvest-tide brings ripeness of the whole. (Nathaniel A. Benson,
1903 -1967)

September 18, 2013 Whenever you find yourself on the
side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain, 1835 -
1910)

September 11, 2013 Life isn't about finding
yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw, 1856 -
1950)

June 19, 2013 Man is least himself when he talks in
his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. (Oscar Wilde,
1854 - 1900)

June 12, 2013 Happiness in this world, when it comes,
comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose
chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may
find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. (Nathaniel Hawthorne,
1804 - 1864) (Cf. May 24, 2011)

June 5, 2013 The more the universe seems
comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. ( Steven Weinberg, 1933 - )

April 17, 2013 The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
(Anton Chekov, 1860 - 1904)

April 10, 2013 If only God would give me some clear sign!
Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. (Woody Allen, 1935 - )

April 3, 2013 Dream in a pragmatic way. (Aldous
Huxley, 1894 - 1963)

March 27, 2013 Everything popular is wrong. (Oscar
Wilde, 1854 -1900)

March 20, 2013 The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits. (Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955)

March 13, 2013 The universe we observe has precisely the
properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no
evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. (Richard Dawkins, 1941 -
)

March 6, 2013 There are some ideas so wrong that only a
very intelligent person could believe them. (George Orwell, 1903 - 1950)

February 28, 2013 Socialism means slavery. (Lord
Acton, 1834 - 1902)

February 21, 2013 Praise from the common people is
generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. (Francis Bacon,
1561 -1626)

February 14, 2013 Justice will not be served until those
who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are affected. (Benjamin
Franklin, 1706 - 1790)

January 30, 2013 The general purpose of this paper, is to
expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and
affectation...(Richard Steele, 1672-1729, in describing The Tatler)

January 23, 2013 Freedom is the right to tell people what
they do not want to hear. (George Orwell, 1903 -1950) Oddly, we were only
able to find the source of: If liberty
means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to
hear -- from a proposed preface to Animal Farm.)

January 16, 2013 His smile is like the silver plate on a
coffin. (John Philpot Curran, 1750 - 1817)

January 9, 2013 I have never made but one prayer to God, a
very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
(Voltaire, 1694 - 1778)

January 2, 2013 The true measure of a man is how he treats
someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784)

December 12, 2012 This world is a comedy to those that
think, a tragedy to those that feel. (Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford,
1717 - 1797)

December 5, 2012 I have examined all the known
superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of
Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and
mythology. (Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826)

November 28, 2012 The theologian may indulge in the
pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in
her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must
discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she
contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of
beings. (Edward Gibbon, 1737 - 1794)

November 21, 2012 Conversation enriches the
understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. (Edward Gibbon, 1737 -
1794)

November 14, 2012 He knows nothing and thinks he knows
everything. That points clearly to a political career. (George Bernard Shaw,
1856 - 1950)

November 7, 2012 I am not a friend to a very energetic
government. It is always oppressive. (Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826)

October 31, 2012 In the misfortune of our friends we find
something that is not displeasing to us. (La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680)

October 24, 2012 Politics is the art of the possible. (Prince Bismarck, 1815
- 1898)

October 17, 2012 Full many a gem of purest ray
serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood;
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
(Thomas Gray, 1716 - 1771. From Elegy in a Country Churchyard.)

October 3, 2012 It does me no
injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. (Thomas
Jefferson, 1743 - 1826)

September 26, 2012 Evil prospers
when good men do nothing. (John Philpot Curran, 1750 - 1817) (Cf. the Spanish Proverb: Quien
calla, otorga. He who is silent, gives consent.)

September 19, 2012 The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of
his crime and the punishment
of his guilt. (John Philpot Curran, 1750 - 1817)

July 3, 2012 Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
(Voltaire, 1694 -1778)

June 27, 2012 I cannot persuade myself
that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic
wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of
Caterpillars. (Charles Darwin, 1809 - 1882)

June 20, 2012 A radical is a man with both feet firmly
planted in the air. (President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945)

1
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
When April with its sweet-smelling showers
2 The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
Has pierced the drought of March to the root,
3 And bathed every veyne in swich licour
And bathed every vein (of the plants) in such liquid
4 Of which vertu engendred is the flour; By which power the flower is created;
5 Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
When the West Wind also with its sweet breath,
6 Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
In every wood and field has breathed life into
7 The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
The tender new leaves, and the young sun
8 Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne,
Has run half its course in Aries,
9 And smale foweles maken melodye,
And small fowls make melody,
10 That slepen al the nyght with open ye
Those that sleep all the night with open eyes
11 (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages),
(So Nature incites them in their hearts),
12 Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
Then folk long to go on pilgrimages,
13 And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
And professional pilgrims to seek foreign shores,
14 To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
To distant shrines, known in various lands;
15 And specially from every shires ende
And specially from every shire's end
16 Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende,
Of England to Canterbury they travel,
17 The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
To seek the holy blessed martyr,
18 That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
Who helped them when they were sick.

May 9, 2012 Take the risk of thinking for
yourself; much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that
way.
(Christopher Hitchens
1949 - 2011)

May 2, 2012 An expert is one who knows more and more
about less and less. (Nicholas Murray Butler, 1862 - 1947)

April 25. 2012 No more: where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
(Thomas Gray, 1716 - 1771)

April 18, 2012 By education most have been misled;
So they believe, because they have been bred.
The priest continues what the nurse began,
And thus the child imposes on the man. (John
Dryden, 1631 - 1700)

April 11, 2012 'Tis Education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
(Alexander Pope, 1688 - 1744)

April 4, 2012
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it,
and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him
who makes me uneasy.
(Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784)

March 28, 2012 Get your facts first,
then you can distort them as you please. (Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910)

March 21, 2012 Droll thing life is -- that
mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can
hope from it is some
knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable
regrets. (Joseph Conrad, 1857 - 1924. Heart of Darkness)

March 14, 2012 Men, it has
been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while
they only recover their senses slowly, and one
by one. (Charles Mackay, 1814-1889)

March 7, 2012 They are not long, the days of wine and
roses. (Ernest Dowson, 1867-1900)

February 29, 2012 I have tried too in my time to be a
philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
(Oliver Edwards 1711-
1791)

December 1, 2011 For what a man would like to be
true, that he more readily believes. (Francis Bacon 1561-1626)

November 23, 2011

In short, whoever you may be,
To this conclusion you'll agree,
When every one is somebodee,
Then no one's anybody! (W.S. Gilbert, 1836- 1911. From The Gondoliers..."There lived a king as I've been told...")

November 16, 2011 Time, you old gypsy
man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?
(Ralph Hodgson 1871-1962)

November 9, 2011 Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra
dixerunt. Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
(Aelius Donatus, 4thC A.D.) [May they perish, he said, who before us our
(remarks) have uttered]

November 2, 2011 No man is an Island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main...any man's death
diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to
know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. (John Donne, 1571-1631)

October 26, 2011

This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I;
When beeches drip in browns and duns,
And thresh and ply;
And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe,
And meadow rivulets overflow,
And drops on gate bars hang in a row,
And rooks in families homeward go,
And so do I.
(Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928)

October 19, 2011 If we take in our hand any volume
of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain
any abstract reasoningconcerning quantity or number? No. Does
it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or experience?
No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but
sophistry and illusion. (David Hume, 1711-1776)

October 12, 2011 It takes two to speak the
truth,--one to speak, and another to hear. (Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862)

October 5, 2011 But far more numerous was the
herd of such
Who think too little and talk too much.
(John Dryden, 1631-1700)

August 24, 2011 All you need is
ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)

August 17, 2011 That kind of life is most
happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

August 10, 2011 Cunning is the dark sanctuary of
incapacity. (Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773)

August 3, 2011 That action is best, which procures the
greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. (Frances Hutcheson, 1694-1746)
Also: The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals
and legislation. (Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832)

July 27, 2011 I have measured out my life with
coffee spoons. (T.S. Eliot, 1888- 1965. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.)

July 20, 2011 I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
(Ellen Sturgis Hooper, 1816-1841)

July 13, 2011 We can never be sure that the opinion
we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling
it would be an evil still.
(John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873. On Liberty)

July 6, 2011 Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It
prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (W. Somerset
Maugham, 1874-1965)

June 29, 2011 One religion is as true as another.
(Robert Burton, 1577-1640)

June 15, 2011 And that inverted Bowl we call the Sky
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to It for help--for It
Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.
(Edward Fitzgerald, 1809-1883 --The Rubaiyat)

March 16, 2011 Actions are
visible, though motives are secret. (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

March 10, 2011 Almost
every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does
not possess. (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

March 3, 2011. Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem
as deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. (Walter Savage
Landor, 1775-1864)

February 23, 2011. A mixture of
a lie doth ever add pleasure. (Francis Bacon 1561-1626. Of Truth,
1601) From the same essay: Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that
showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond, or
carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights.

February 16, 2011. ...when the facts are not good
enough, I always exaggerate... The complete sentence, from College Days (1923),
English as she is Taught at College is: I admit that when the facts
are not good enough, I always exaggerate them. (Stephen Leacock, 1869-1944)

Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

January 26, 2011 Talent is long patience. (Guy de
Maupassant, 1850-1893)

January 19, 2011 Constant experience has shown me
that great purity and elegance of style, with a graceful elocution, cover a
multitude of faults in either a speaker or a writer. (Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773. Letter to his son.)

January 12, 2011 A wise man will make more opportunities
than he finds. (Francis Bacon, 1561-1626)

January 5, 2011 Question with boldness even the existence
of a god; because if there be one he must approve the homage of reason more than
that of blindfolded fear. (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826. Letter to Peter Carr,
August 10, 1787)

December 22, 2010 A cucumber should be well sliced, and
dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
(Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

December 15, 2010 Out of my great sorrows, I make little
songs. (Heinrich Heine, 1797-1856) (I always thought it was my
little songs--and I think that sounds better!)

December 8, 2010 Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
(The best is the enemy of the good. Voltaire, 1694-1778)

December 1, 2010 We are such stuff/ As dreams are made on,
and our little life/ Is rounded with a sleep. (Shakespeare, The Tempest)

November 25, 2010 As flies to wanton boys are we to the
gods; They kill us for their sport. (Shakespeare, King Lear)

November 17, 2010. A foolish consistency is the
hobgoblin of small minds. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882)

November 10, 2010. A committee is
organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant.
It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from
which other committees will bloom in their turn. (C. Northcote Parkinson,
1909- 1993)

November 3, 2010. "If people bring so much courage to this
world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The
world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But
those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle
and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it
will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ernest Hemingway, (1898 - 1961)

October 27, 2010. Tenet insanabile multos / Scribendi
cacoethes et aegro in corde senescit. Many suffer from the incurable disease
of writing, and itbecomes chronic in their sick minds. (Juvenal, A.D. c.
60-c. 130) (Holds incurable many/ of writing the mania and sick in the
heart it grows.)

October 20, 2010. There are two tragedies in life. One is
not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. (George Bernard Shaw,
1856-1950)

October 13, 2010. It is a good thing for an uneducated man
to read books of quotations. (Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)

October 6, 2010 No man is a hypocrite in his
pleasures. (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

September 22, 2010 Death is the mother of
beauty...Wallace Stevens in Sunday Morning. (1879-1955)

September 15, 2010 No lesson seems to be
so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust
the experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe
the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is
safe. (Lord Salisbury, 1830-1903)

September 8, 2010...and the life of man, solitary,
poor, nasty, brutish, and short. (Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679)

September 1, 2010

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;

(Robert Frost, 1874-1963) from Acquainted with the Night.
The interrupted cry suggests foul play on the rainy night in question; it is
telling that the narrator perceives the event through the prism of his own
isolation.

August 27, 2010 Let's say it one more time loudly for the
media moguls in the cheap seats: Most Muslims are not terrorists. But in the
21st century, most of those slaughtering women and children in the name of
religion are Muslims. This is a movement. This is reality. And it is a problem.
It ought to be seen by Muslims as very much their problem--a pathology within
their community, within the "Muslim world," within the ummah. (Clifford May in
the National Post, August 27, 2010.)

August 25, 2010 ..moral disapproval is a muscle we are
always anxious to flex... (Robert Fulford, National Post, August 24, 2010.)

August 18, 2010 Men are not hanged for stealing
horses, but that horses may not be stolen. (George Savile, Marquis of Halifax.
1633-1695)

August 11, 2010 And how am I to face the odds,
Of man's bedevilment and Gods?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made. (A.E.
Houseman, 1859-1936. God's Laws...)

July 28, 2010 The mass of men lead lives of quiet
desperation. (Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862. Walden, 1854,)

July 22, 2010 (It's a short week.) Fifty years ago people
believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas
today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it
home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who
think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to
disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell. (George Jonas, 1935 -
2015.
National Post, July 17, 2010.)

July 19, 2010 Educating people beyond their intellectual
means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a
nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace. (George Jonas, 1935 -
2015. National
Post, July 17, 2010.)

July 14, 2010. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the
only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882)

July 7, 2010. What is written without effort is in
general read without pleasure. (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

June 16, 2010. Any man more right than his neighbors
constitutes a majority of one. (Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862)

June 9, 2010. Knavery is the best defence against a knave.
(Plutarch, A.D. 46-120)

June 3, 2010. Never be a pioneer. It's the Early Christian
that gets the fattest lion. 'Saki' (H. H. Munro) 1870-1916

May 26, 2010: A little learning is a dang'rous
thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) An Essay on Criticism

May 19, 2010: True wit is nature to advantage dress'd,
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Alexander Pope
(1688-1744) An Essay on Criticism (1711)

May 12, 2010: Ridicule often decides matters of importance
more effectually, and in a better manner, than severity. (Horace 65-8 B.C.
Satires)

May 5, 2010. It is well for the world that in most of us,
by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften
again. (William James, 1842-1910.)

April 28, 2010. "This craving for community of worship is
the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the
beginning of time. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with
the sword...'Put away your gods and come worship ours, or we will kill you and
your gods!'" (Fyodor Dostoevsky from The Grand Inquisitor--The Brothers
Karamazov.)

April 21, 2010. "The horror! The horror!" The last words
and summarizing judgment of Kurtz, a character in Conrad's famous novel,
Heart of Darkness (1902). (Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924.)

April 14, 2010. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor
player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
(William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. Macbeth)

April 7, 2010. One's own free unfettered choice,
one's own caprice--however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to
frenzy--is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked,
which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories
are continually being shattered to atoms... [Man] will attain his object--that
is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key! (Fyodor Dostoyevsky
, Notes from Underground. 1864.)

March 30, 2010. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of
fools and the beacons of wise men. (Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895.)

March 24, 2010. The figure a poem
makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life -
not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on,
but in a momentary stay against confusion. (Robert Frost, 1874-1963)
The Figure a Poem
Makes-- Preface to Collected Poems)

March 16, 2010. Praise, like gold and diamonds owes its
value only to its scarcity. (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784.)

March 8, 2010. Man once surrendering his reason, has
no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship
without rudder, is the sport of every wind. (Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826; letter to James Smith,
1822.)

March 3, 2010. It is crucial to remember that weather
should not be confused with climate, that climate science remains in its
infancy, and that attempting to change global climate by a vast scheme to
coordinate national economic policies is an impossible dream that in reality
threatens both political and economic nightmare. (Peter Foster, The
National Post, March 3, 2010.)

March 1, 2010. Before you take the first dose of
any medication your doctor prescribes, you should make it your business to find
out more about the drug than the doctor himself knows. (Robert S. Mendelsohn,
M.D. Confessions of a Medical Heretic 1979.)

February 15, 2010. "Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy
without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon." (Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924.
Heyst in Victory)

February 8, 2010. For every age is fed with illusions,
lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
(Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924. Victory)

February 5, 2010. "When I use a word," Humpty-Dumpty said,
"it means just what I choose it to mean --neither more nor less." (Lewis Carroll
{Charles Lutwidge Dodgson} 1832-1898.) Through the Looking-Glass.

February 1, 2010. The Social Contract is nothing more or
less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for
the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into
the social masonry. (H.G. Wells, 1866-1946. Love and Mr.
Lewisham,
ch. 23.)

January 29, 2010. A man who knows the price of everything and the
value of nothing. (Definition of a cynic. Oscar Wilde 1854 -1900)
Suggested by Kevin Final, Toronto.

January 25, 2010. Those who believe absurdities will
commit atrocities. (Voltaire (1694-1778)